Heartbeats After Midnight (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798196131127)

When Hurricane Delilah tears through Lafayette, Louisiana, ER nurse Maya Boudreaux is already running on caffeine, grit, and sheer stubbornness. A fiercely independent single mother, Maya has spent years holding her life together with exhausted hands and zero safety net. She doesn't need rescuing-and she definitely doesn't need a dangerously handsome British trauma surgeon complicating her carefully controlled world.

Dr. Eli Tudor arrives at Saint Michael's Hospital like a storm inside a storm: brilliant under pressure, maddeningly calm, and carrying secrets far bigger than his polished accent and devastating smile. In the middle of catastrophic floodwaters and nonstop trauma cases, Maya discovers Eli isn't just another privileged doctor passing through town. He's a man running from a life of wealth and expectations-and the only person who seems able to see straight through the armor she's spent years building.

But Maya has learned the hard way that trusting the wrong man can destroy everything.

As long shifts blur into stolen moments, late-night confessions, and undeniable chemistry, Maya and Eli are pulled together by something stronger than attraction: the desperate hope that maybe love can survive even after life has broken you open. Yet when Eli's hidden past collides with Maya's fierce need for independence, both must decide whether love is worth risking the carefully protected hearts they swore they'd never hand over again.

Set against the storm-soaked backdrop of Louisiana hospitals, flooded streets, and candlelit kitchen tables, Heartbeats After Midnight is a deeply emotional contemporary romance filled with sizzling chemistry, slow-burn tension, found family, and a hero who falls first-and hard.

If you love fiercely competent heroines, protective doctors with secrets, emotional slow burns, and romance that hits straight in the chest, then fall headfirst into Heartbeats After Midnight today.